Minutes for Meeting of February 6, 2009

Next Meeting

February 20, 2009

Attendance

Lucas

Vincent

Brian

J5

Behdad

Diego

Stormy

Zana

Regrets

Luis (Trying to graduate)

Minutes

Novell/Banshee/Amazon Affiliates. The GNOME Foundation now has an Amazon Affiliates account. We can have multiple labels associated with it for tracking reasons. It was pointed out that distributions can and might want to change the affiliates code in applications. Once Novell comes back with a proposal for Banshee we should widen the audience.

Elections: Done by membership committee. Need to wait for Bruno to be back from vacation. 1) Do we want to change the number of board seats? (General feeling was 7 was a good number.) 2) Good schedule? 3) Preferential voting? 4) Who will run? ACTION: Vincent to blog.

GUADEC: There is a meeting tomorrow afternoon at FOSDEM to discuss a few things. (Condo quote for Linux Foundation, break sponsor quote for Intel, party quote for Canonical)

Travel Committee: Send proposal to foundation-list. For the travel committee, it would be a good idea to have someone from membership committee. Please propose folks for the travel committee to Stormy.

GTK+ marketing proposal from Alberto. Making GTK more appealing to developers. To show what things could look like, he created a mockup for a new home page, http://www.gnome.org/~diegoe/stuff/gtkwebsite20.png Would like to set up agreements with universities to teach GTK+ related topics like Mozilla does. Push for Summer of Code for GTK releated projects.

Google Summer of Code. We want to participate. ACTION: Lucas will look for volunteers.